Helpdesk: Exploding pagers and walkie-talkies are a reminder of how easily your devices can be hacked – here’s how to make sure they are safe
NICK HAJLI, AI strategist and professor of digital strategy at Loughborough University, provides some tips in an article first published on The Conversation…
Low brow and vulgar?: Micro dramas shake up China’s film industry, aim for Hollywood
ANTONI SLODKOWSKI, of Reuters, reports on the rise of micro films in China…
Helpdesk: How AI features in smartphones are reducing their dependence on the cloud
JOHN CHIVERTON, in an article first published on The Conversation, looks at how technology companies are incorporating AI features into mobile phones…
Conversations: Carlos Whittaker spent seven weeks screen-free. Here’s how his idea of God changed.
The former US worship pastor emphasises that ‘Reconnected’ isn’t another book about why phones are bad. Instead, it’s about the beautiful things on the other side of the phone. He spoke with ELLIE DAVIS, of Religion News Service…
Russia vs Ukraine: The biggest war of the fake news era
MAX HUNDER, of Reuters, reports on the information war taking place in the Ukraine conflict…
Helpdesk: Should you charge your phone overnight? Will ‘overcharging’ make it explode? Common battery myths debunked
RITESH CHUGH, of CQUniversity Australia, looks – in an article first published on The Conversation, at what the evidence shows about mobile phone batteries…
Lebanon in crisis: Emergency numbers and suicide hotlines falter
TALA RAMADAN, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on the impacts of Lebanon’s ongoing economic crisis with people there now at risk losing access to two more essentials – their mobile phones and the internet…
Helpdesk: Do you use predictive text? Chances are it’s not saving you time – and could even be slowing you down
In an article published on The Conversation, PER OLA KRISTENSSON, professor of interactive systems engineering at the University of Cambridge, says predictive text may not make typing faster or more efficient…
Eliminating inefficiencies: Africa’s farmers click with digital tools to boost crops
NITA BHALLA, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on how digital technology is transforming the way people are working on the land…
Origins: The first mobile phone call was 75 years ago – what it takes for technologies to go from breakthrough to big time
Professor of electrical engineering DANIEL BLISS, in an article first published on The Conversation, looks at where the first mobile phone services began – and how they’ve evolved since…